No getting around that Team Romney and national Republicans are not on the same page about trumpeting Obama’s individual mandate as a tax. It’s for reasons that have less to do with the politics of the moment than with Mitt’s repeated descriptions over the years of his own mandate in Massachusetts as a tax. One GOP strategist we talked to about the channel conflict uses the elegant euphemism “message dichotomy.”

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